Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.